Maggie Pizzo, this month’s News 12 Long Island scholar-athlete honoree, will play lacrosse at Yale University, and presumably also the flute, as she did at a national high school band concert in Nashville recently.
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How sweet it is: The Pierson Whalers hailed the school’s first state field hockey championship in 10 tries. Kasey Gilbride (11) scored the title-winning goal; Katherine Matthers, at left, got the assist.
W. James Matthers

Katherine Matthers notched one of the Whalers’ goals in the first one-on-one shootout round Saturday. W. James Matthers

Sam Duchemin, Pierson’s junior rookie goalie, “really stepped up” in the two rounds of shootouts that capped the state semifinal with Whitney Point, and shut out Cazenovia in the Class C title game.W. James Matthers